I am often asked for a simple, effective, and no-nonsense approach to goal setting that can be used by anyone regardless of age or situation.

What follows is what I affectionately call the 30-Day Extreme Makeover. Follow it to the letter and you will be quite pleased with the outcome.  …continues

One of the great things about trials and challenges is that they can force us into action. Just taking consistent action gets us 80% of the way toward any goal.

Based on the economic turmoil going on all around us, there is no more urgent time than right now to ACT. Everywhere people are losing their homes, their retirement savings, and the shirts off their back. It’s time to take your future by the horns and these 20 questions will help point the way!  …continues

If your results right this very instant are not where you want them to be, and if you have more excuses than goals achieved, when would be a good time to get back to the fundamentals of goal setting, focus and execution?   …continues

Discipline is the virtue that gives you the courage and the inner resolve to do what you said you would do – when you said you would do it – period.  …continues

Low achievers have a kind of blasé, laissez-faire attitude, when it comes to preparation. While high achievers prepare well and practice in advance to perform at their very best.   …continues

When professional athletes perform well, they are not surprised at all. In fact, they expected to do well because they preformed flawlessly in their mind first – they visualized success in advance.   …continues

Manage your outgoing and incoming calls with the same level of professionalism and discipline that you would with any business meeting.   …continues

One of the most important parts of being organized is figuring out what to do with all that paper.

The sheer volume can be overwhelming therefore you must have a system in place that manages the way you handle paper and you must be diligent in sticking to that system.   …continues

Your time management system might be good or bad, conscious or unconscious, but don’t be deceived; you do have a system for being organized or disorganized.

Your office or home might be in shambles. In that case, whether you admit it or not, your system consists of living in a mess.   …continues

After you establish your goals and priorities for a day, hour, or a particular meeting or project you must compartmentalize.

Compartmentalization means focusing on each individual item without letting any one activity encroach upon the timing and effectiveness of any other.   …continues